When the world zigs, zag wrote Barbara Noakes for BBH all those years ago and little-known (hitherto) Farmer’s Dog seems to have swept the Super Bowl ad stakes – topping USA Today’s Ad Meter among others – with a David & Goliath ad eschewing celebrities (unless the dog becomes one) and frantic attempts at humour.
Probably came as a welcome relief.
Dogs (and horses like Bud’s Clydesdales) have often played well in the Super Bowl but data-driven advertisers this year thought they knew better. But what do they know?
